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The Extra Chunky Church 2: The Body of Christ?
Have you ever had your thinking completely changed, by a complete stranger, as you got into his car, on your way to getting a chicken parm sub? It’s not an everyday occurrence for me either, but it did happen once. Interestingly, the stranger was a young seminary student, the topic was church, and the person…
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It was the early 1980’s, and Prego was losing the spaghetti sauce battle to Ragu. Prego refused to be crushed (like the tomatoes they used to make their sauces), so they hired Howard Moskowitz, who has a doctorate in psychophysics from Harvard. (Coincidentally, this is an educational path I almost took.) (Except I had never…
Read MoreLocal Predicament: A Case Study (5)
I’ve had a short series the last few Thursdays on the importance of understanding your local predicament in constructing your church’s vision, and the strategy you’ll employ to see the vision become reality. The problem is that we tend to to look to success stories in other places, not realizing that where God has specifically…
Read MoreLocal Predicament: A Case Study (4)
I shared last week that when we moved to Las Vegas to start Verve, it was from a church in Virginia Beach with a successful small group ministry that had been the primary venue for discipleship. But we spent a year understanding the “local predicament” of Las Vegas, and realized that small groups would be…
Read MoreLocal Predicament: A Case Study (3)
I wrote last week about how we came from a successful church plant in Virginia Beach that had two essential elements in our strategy: worship services and small groups. We moved to Las Vegas to start another new church, assuming we would have the same strategy, but holding off our final decision until we had…
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